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A media platform in the mould of Canva moves its self-managed Kafka cluster - 24 brokers, about 1800 partitions, 7-day retention, roughly 9 TB on disk - onto a managed streaming service, to free the two engineers who keep it running. What have they given up, and when does that bill arrive?

You have twelve weeks and a large estate. Which replatforming changes do you make and why those?